Left, from The Evening Standard, right, from the Michael Ochs Archives, both from Getty Images.

Charles Manson, the murderous cult leader whose heinous plots shocked the world in the late 1960s, died on Sunday during a hospital stay in Kern County, California. He was 83. Though he had been behind bars for the last several decades, his wretched life left an indelible mark on Hollywood—not only because actress Sharon Tate was among his victims, but also thanks to the scores of artists who have been inspired to make movies and TV shows about Manson.

The media frenzy that surrounded the notorious Manson murders in 1969 gave Manson the fame he had always longed for. Everything about him—his long-haired followers, his chosen murder victims, his Los Angeles presence—has since been copied or parodied in film and television, kicking off a Manson obsession that refuses to yield even nearly 50 years after the slaughter. Just weeks ago, American Horror Story: Cult featured a politician character (played by Evan Peters) who becomes inspired by, and ultimately possessed by, Manson. He tells his followers that he has been directly inspired by the late cult leader, demanding that there be “a night of a thousand Tates!”

There’s also even more Manson-inspired fare coming down the pike. Director Quentin Tarantino is currently prepping a new film set in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969. Though the story is not directly about the Manson murders, those heinous killings will serve as a backdrop for its main plot. Perhaps it will hit theaters around the same time as Scott Rudin’s upcoming adaptation of Emma Cline’s best-selling 2016 novel, The Girls, which follows a fictionalized Manson family.

And Manson, of course, has already been the subject of countless movies, from the Oscar-nominated documentary Manson (1973) to Netflix’s comedy Manson Family Vacation (2015). His family partially inspired the jarring 2011 drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, a story about a fictional cult. Defanged cartoon versions of the cult leader have graced both Family Guy and South Park. The short-lived 2015 NBC drama Aquarius, set in 1967 Los Angeles, featured Manson as a central character (played by Gethin Anthony); its plot revolved around a pair of detectives looking for a missing girl, who ended up being a hippie Manson recruit.

Manson stories transcend genre: he has also inspired stage productions, from the 1990 opera The Manson Family to the 1990 Stephen Sondheim musical Assassins; singer Marilyn Manson fashioned his stage name after a portmanteau of the cult leader and actress Marilyn Monroe; the Hollywood-centric podcast You Must Remember This released a massive, 12-episode series retelling the Manson story in fascinating and gory detail.

In the wake of phenomena like Serial and The Jinx, true crime has had something of a renaissance in recent years—but Manson stories never went away in the first place. The sordid saga of the Tate-LaBianca murders is still too shocking, too grim, too creepily alluring, a mixture of horror and Hollywood glitz that stands alone among real-life crime stories. It’s why Hollywood can’t quit Manson just yet—and why it probably never will.